I HAVE MOVED!

Hi,  I won't be posting here anymore. Instead on this blog where I'll post my uni work and general art stuff.

Watermelons

Here is a vector illustration I did recently. I couldn't think of anything to put in the background so I just used the main pattern.

Some Drawings + Instagram

I also have an instagram if anyone wants to follow. @artpixie

Book Cover Designs

Earlier in the year each student was assigned two books to design covers for. I got two books by Jane Austen, 'Pride and Prejudice' + 'Sense and Sensibility'. I hadn't really read the books before but I had a decent grasp of what they were about. Initially each student was going to have their cover bound into an actual book, however that didn't happen because of some drawbacks. So we had to make fake mockups using paper.

Ice Cream Package Mockup

I just finished my design course for the year, it's so great to be on holidays right now.
This is a bunch photos of my final ice cream package design, which ended up being printed on really good quality stock, same one I posted briefly here.
It was a pretty long brief that went on for a whole semester and took a lot of hard work to get right. Overall I'm happy with it but I could've done a few more things to improve it and make it pop out more.


I ended up changing the product logo because the original one just wasn't working well with the rest of the design.
Below is a picture of the ice cream wrapper we had to cut and make ourselves + make fake ice cream using sponges and popsicle sticks to fill in the wrapper.

Illustrator Patterns

Here are some patterns I made earlier in the year for a brief, I found out about it quite late so it turned out quite rushed and not all the patterns are seamless. It's definitely something I need to improve on for next year.

Illustrations 14/10/2012

For my illustration class we had to illustrate a book on a topic we chose ourselves. My favorite band right now that I'm listening to non stop is The Killers so I chose to my book revolve around them. For each spread there was an illustration of one of their songs. I looked at the lyrics and tried to create ~*imagery~ from that. Although it was a bit hard sometimes because some of the lyrics are a bit vague.

Human:
Mr Brightside: Runaways Bones

Imaging Poster

Crappy poster I made that actually got a high mark (I don't know why?) The aim of the brief was to find a design-related quote and choose from a list of designers that were on the list they supplied us.

Interactive pdf

For multimedia we had to make an interactive pdf based on a topic of our choice and to include 3 wikipedia articles  based under that topic. I chose to do music festivals.  It was a pretty long brief (went on for around 6 weeks) and much time was spent procrastinating.  If I were to re-do this again I think I would re-think the concept behind it as it's not the strongest bit.

Finding content like images was pretty hard because we needed CC licensed images.

Update

I haven't posted on here for a long time, I have been busy with homework (currently at RMIT studying Graphic design) so I've forgotten to post here. Here's some of the stuff we've been doing:

This is my Positive Posters 2012 entry which is also a class brief we have to hand in.

We also had to generate a ice cream packaging character. I named my ice cream product 'Strawberry Fields' and created a cutesy girl character to go along with my packaging.  This isn't the finished product, I think I'm going to change the product logo because it doesn't work well with the rest of the design.

Notepads mini-task from Reprographics and Pre-press

Lomo LC-A+

I recently ordered a Lomo LC-A a few weeks ago. I didn't have time until this week to finally unbox it.
I haven't tested it out yet but will post pictures as soon as I do.

Illustrations

I haven't updated in a while so I thought I would post some of my recent work:

(click on images for bigger size)

Original photo here

Drawing I did of Marion Cotillard, the quote is from Inception.

Interview: Olivia Bryce Yates

Name? Olivia Bryce Yates

Age?
23 years so all I have to look forward to is dirty thirty

Where are you from?
Newcastle Australia, A nice town two hours north of Sydney

Tools of the trade?
Yashica Medium format, Ricoh 35mm and about 15 different kinds of Polaroid camera

Artistic influences and how much does it influence your work?:
I paint nearly everyday and have more of an arts background than I do of photography so I guess it factors in pretty significantly.

Why do you like photography/art and what do you get out of it?:
Its fills my O.C.D requirements

What motivates and inspires you?(films/music/people ect):
John Jacob Niles, No Country for Old Men, Handsome Furs are nice to listen to while doing activities and obviously my friends are the most significant factor as they make up the majority of my photography

Where do you see yourself in the future?:
Still in the same place

Where did you learn how to edit and do you have any tips?:
I try not to edit
Who/what/where are important parts of your photographic process?:
Shoot, shoot, shoot some more. Sometimes your best work will be your mistakes.

Film or digital?:
Film, though there are some people out there now who are doing amazing things with digital photography.

Anything else you'd like to share? (favourite bands/movies ect.)?
Maybe musically look at the Drones? And film wise Kenneth Anger, Scorpio Rising being a good place to start.

Links:
www.cookies-and-cream its a site I have created to showcase varying works from a whole host of contributors. My personal website is also updated daily, www.Bryceyates.blogspot.com with random moments from my life.